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ERIC Number: ED278721
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1981
Pages: 544
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Female Immigrants to the United States: Caribbean, Latin American, and African Experiences. RIIES Occasional Paper No. 2.
Mortimer, Delores M., Ed.; Bryce-Laporte, Roy S., Ed.
Seminar papers on the recent immigrantion of women from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa are collected in the first part of this two-part book. Titles (and authors) of the papers are: (1) "The New Immigration: The Female Majority" (Roy S. Bryce-Laporte); (2) "Race, Ethnicity, and Sex in the Recent Immigration: Some Preliminary Comments" (Delores M. Mortimer); (3) "Black Immigrant Women in 'Brown Girl, Brownstones'" (Paule Marshall); (4) "Caribbean Migration: A Perspective on Women" (Monica Gordon); (5) "Goin' Abroad': Working Class Jamaican Women and Migration" (A. Lynn Bolles); (6) "Migration and Sex Roles: A Comparison of Black and Indian Trinidadians in New York City" (Judith Burgess and Meryl James-Gray); (7) "Profile of a Haitian Migrant Woman" (Susan Huelsebusch Buchanan); (8) "Ethnic, Racial Attitudes among Professional and Managerial Black Women: Research Note" (Audrey Johnson); (9) "Nigerian Women and Child-Bearing Practices in Washington, D.C.: A Summary of Research Findings and Implications" (Dorothy Payne Bryan); (10) "Caribbean Women and the Brain Drain" (exerpt, Donna Gray); (11) "Black, Female, and Foreign-Born: A Statement" (Barbara T. Christian); (12) "Ma, I Remember" (poem, Eugenia A. Franklin-Springer); (13) Latinas Lead the Way" (Lucy M. Cohen); (14) "Exporting Capital and Importing Labor: The Role of Women" (Saskia Sassen-Koob); (15) "The Differential Incorporation of Hispanic Women Migrants in the United States Labor Force" (Helen I. Safa); (16) "Evaluating a Work Incentive Program: Report on Employability Services for Hispanic Women" (Palmira N. Rios); (17) "Mexican Undocumented Women Workers in Los Angeles: A Research Note" (Reynaldo Baca and Dexter Bryan); (18) "Black Cubans in the United States: Basic Demographic Information" (Lourdes Casal, with Yolanda Prieto); (19) "Obituary to a Female Immigrant and Scholar: Lourdes Casal (1938-1981)" (Roy S. Bryce-Laporte; (20) "An Afterword" (Elsa M. Chaney): (21) "Women and Migration: A Bibliography"; (Delores M. Mortimer) introduces the second part of the volume, which consists of a sizable, but selected bibliography on non-European female immigrants and related topics. A list of contributors and seminar panelists is included. (KH)
Public Information Office, Department of Anthropology, NHB363, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 (free, limit of one copy).
Publication Type: Books; Reference Materials - Bibliographies; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Research Inst. on Immigration and Ethnic Studies.
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